Extensive information on how to download Mathemagix
and install the software is available on our website www.texmacs.org. For the moment, we recommend
compilation from the sources. In order to go short, the following
steps should be followed in order to obtain a working version of the
compiler mmc and the interpreter mmi:

Verify that all dependencies are installed on your system. In
particular, it is recommended that you have recent versions of
Libtool, Readline,
Gmp, Mpfr and TeXmacs
installed on your computer. You will also need Svn
to check out the source code.

In a shell session, check out the most recent development version
of Mathemagix using Svn,
by issuing the command

svn checkout svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/mmx

This should create a directory mmx. Go to this
directory, using

cd mmx

Configure and build the software using the commands

./configure
make

Assuming root privileges, install the software in /usr/local
using

make install

Enjoy using the software!

Remark 1. If you want to
install the software at a non standard location install-dir
(which is in particular the case if you do not have root privileges
on your machine), then you should replace the configuration line in
step ? by

./configure --prefix=install-dir

Of course, this requires that the directory install-dir/bin
is in your path.

Remark 2. Alternatively,
you may not install the software at all and run the software
directly from the place where it was built. In that case, you may
run the command

source set-devel-path

after step 3 instead of doing a make install. This
will add the necessary directories to your PATH.
However, you will have to rerun the script every time that you open
a new shell session.

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